Fuel-igniter



Patented June 21, 1921.

INVENTOR CbarlesJVlasa/r WITNESSES A TTOHNEVS PATENT OFFIQE.

CHARLES JOSEPH VLASAK, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

FUELJGNETEB.

Application filed January 18, 1921.

T 0 all w 710m may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES JOSEPH VLASAK, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and

In the accompanying drawing which illus trates my present invention andforms a part of this specification, V

Figure 1 is a detail perspective view illustrating the practicalapplication of my invention,

Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the supporting cross piece,

Fig. 3 is a similar view of the shiftable supporting bar,

Fig. 1 is another detail perspective view of the pivot supporting clamp,and

Fig. 5 is a cross section taken through my improvements in line with thepivot forming clamp.

lieferring now to these figures my invention proposes an apparatusincluding a burner pipe 10, one end of which is provided with lengthwiseseries of burner openings 11 in a curved part 12 beyond a gooseneck bend13 which adapts this, the burner end, of the pipe to convenientoperation in connection with either a low down grate 14 such as shown inconnection with a stove partly seen at 15 in full lines in Fig. 1 andthe grate 16 of a furnace partly seen at 17 in dotted lines in the samefigure.

The burner end of the burner pipe 10 may be plugged or otherwise closedand its opposite curved end 18 is preferably provided with a handle 19and has means, for instance the usual tapering nipple, for theconvenient connection or" a flexible gas supply pipe or hose 20.

The support of the burner includes flat cross piece 21 whose oppositeends are preferably curved and bifurcated to provide downturned spurs 22adapted to straddle or otherwise engage portions of a stove, grate orfurnace, it being obvious that the burner Specification of LettersPatent.

Patented June 21, 1921. Serial No. 438,225.

plpe needs but a steadying purchase rather than an actual support inview of the fact that the handle 19 of the burner pipe is grasped at alltimes in use.

Midway between its ends the cross piece 21 has an opening 23 receiving apivot pin also extending through an aperture 25 at one end of anadjusting bar 26, the latter be ng thus adapted to swing in a horizontalplane with respect to the cross piece.

Adjacent to its free end the adjusting bar 26 has an opening 27 andthrough this openmg a pm 28 extends, this pin projecting through acentral opening 29 of a U-shaped pivot clamp 30, having upstanding sidecars 31 at opposite sides of the bar 26. These ears have openings 32adjacent to their upper ends to receive a clamping bolt 33 and also haveopenings 34 below the openings 32, to receive the ends of a diametricalpin 35 pro ecting through the burner pipe 10 adjacent to its curvedhandle receiving end, which the ears 81 are adapted to clamp.

Thus with the parts assembled as shown in Figs. 1 and 5, the handle 19may be depressed to shift the opposite or burner end of the pipevertically and upwardly to the dotted line position of Fig. 1 and inthis way adapted to the relatively high grates of some furnaces ascompared to the low down grates of stoves, while by shifting the handlefrom side to side the burner pipe will be horizontally adjusted on thepivot 24 connecting the adjusting bar 26 with the cross piece 21 so thatthe burner may in this way be swung laterally beneath the grate.

My invention proposes a simple, inexpensive apparatus which may bequickly inserted in and removed from operative position, which may bereadily manipulated and adjusted in operation, which is simple in con-.2. A fuel igniter including a burner pipe having one free end providedwith burner forming means and having a handle adjacent to its oppositeend, a pivotal mounting 5 for the burner pipe adjacent to its handle andupon Which the burner pipe is vertically swingable, and a frameincluding a cross piece having means at its opposite ends to engage asupport and an ad uStmg bar sup porting the plvotal mounting of theburner pipe adyacent to one end and having its 0pposite end pivoted tothe cross piece.

CHARLES JOSEPH VLASAK.

